The Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India has announced that, only the new/ revised passport application forms would be accepted for submission from today (February 1, 2007).

The revised instructions, procedure and revised documents/ Annexures to be attached with the application forms may be carefully read and complied with before the passport applications are submitted, a official notification said.

The revised form and instructions have been published in the Gazette of India Extraordinary Part –II – Section –3 – Sub Section (i) on December 23, 2006. The new/ revised forms are available at the outlets mentioned on the RPO, Delhi website http://passport.gov.in.